TY  - BOOK
AU  - Semper,Gottfried
AU  - Mallgrave,Harry Francis
AU  - Robinson,Michael
ED  - Getty Research Institute.
TI  - Style: Style in the technical and tectonic arts; or, Practical aesthetics
T2  - Texts & documents
SN  - 9780892365975
AV  - NA2500 S46213 2004
U1  - 720/.1 21
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Los angeles
PB  - Getty Publications
KW  - Architecture
KW  - Aesthetics
KW  - Local
KW  - Decoration and ornament, Architectural
KW  - History
N1  - include index; Includes bibliographical references (p. 921-954) and index; Introduction / Harry Francis Mallgrave --
Style in the technical and tectonic arts; or, Practical aesthetics: A handbook for technicians, artists, and friends of the arts: Part 1, Technical origin of the most important forms, types, and symbols in architecture --
Prolegomena --
Volume 1. Textile art: Considered in itself and in relation to architecture --
1. Introduction --
2. Classification of the technical arts --
3. Textiles, A: General-formal --
4. Textiles, B: Technical-historical --
Volume 2. Ceramics, tectonics, stereotomy, metallurgy: Considered in themselves and in relation to architecture --
5. Ceramics, A: Aesthetic-formal --
6. Ceramics, B: Technical-historical --
7. Tectonics (carpentry), A: General-formal --
8. Tectonics, B: Technical-historical --
9. Stereotomy (stone construction), A: Aesthetic-formal --
10. Stereotomy, B: Technical-historical --
11. Metallurgy (metalwork) --
Semper's table of contents --
Plates --
Works cited by Semper --
Selected bibliography --
Index
N2  - Style, Semper believed, should be governed by historical function, cultural affinities, creative free will, and the innate properties of each medium. He tried to turn 19th century artistic discussion away from historicism, aestheticism and materialism
ER  -